An official trailer has been released for Hold the Dark, the latest feature from Blue Ruin and Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier.

The movie stars Jeffrey Wright, Riley Keough, Alexander Skarsgård, and James Badge Dale, and follows a retired wolf expert who travels to the Alaskan wilderness to help a mother whose son was killed.

Continue below for more on Hold the Dark, and to see the trailer and a poster.

SYNOPSIS:

Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone (RILEY KEOUGH), a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls.

But when Medora’s husband Vernon (ALEXANDER SKARSGARD) returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child’s death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop, Donald Marium (JAMES BADGE DALE), races to stop Vernon’s vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.

The screenplay for the movie was written by Macon Blair, and is based on author William Giraldi‘s novel of the same name. Blair also stars in the movie as he has in all three of Saulnier’s features, the aforementioned Blue Ruin and Green Room as well as 2007’s Murder Party.

Hold the Dark will be coming exclusively to Netflix later this year on September 28th.

Trailer

A gripping psychological thriller unfolds in the treacherous Alaskan wilderness when a retired wolf expert is summoned to investigate a child’s disappearance. Hold The Dark, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd and Riley Keough, and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, premieres on September 28, only on Netflix.

Poster

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